No draws in Glasgow 3rd Floor Chess Radio

5/17/2005 – Our Wednesday night Playchess.com
lecuture, presented by IMs Jacob Aagaard and John Shaw, will take a look at
the on-going Mtel tournament. As in Sofia, the two gentlemen
has no intentions of taking prisoners. The (air)wave energy talk begins at 20.30 CET.

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The Radio
ChessBase lectures by Aagaard and Shaw begin every Wednesday at
20:30h CEST (European Central time = server time, which translates
to 19:30h GMT, 2:30 p.m. New York, 04:30 a.m. Sydney (on Thursday).
You can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior,
Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the lectures, or download a free
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Glasgow 3rd floor Chess Radio

Glasgow 3rd floor Chess Radio

From a home studio in Glasgow, International Master Jacob Aagaard and IM John
Shaw will comment on recent and past chess events in a weekly Radio Show on
the ChessBase server. The show runs on Wednesdays at 20:30 server time (20.30h
CET, 18.30h GMT, 13.30 US East Coast time).

IM Jacob Aagaard is one of the best known chess writers.
His personal favourites among his own works are Excelling at Chess Calculation
and Excelling at Technical Chess, both published by Everyman Chess, as well
as Experts vs. the Sicilian by Quality Chess Europe and Attacking Chess 1&2
(CDs) by Chessbase. Jacob has in 2004 made three GM norms and hopes to gain
the necessary 50 Elo points for the GM title in 2005.

IM John Shaw has written two books for Everyman Chess and
co-edited Experts vs. the Sicilian. He has represented Scotland on many occasions,
recently in the Olympiad in Calvià, where he obtained his second GM-norm.
As John has once had 2500 in Elo, it is his hope that he will complete his
Grandmaster title in 2005 with a third GM-norm.

Together with Jacob, John constitutes two thirds of the new chess publisher
Quality Chess Europe which has
published Experts vs. the Sicilian (Not a good, but a very good book with many
interesting suggestions – Nigel Short and Learn from the Legends
– Chess Champions at their Best by Romanian GM Mihail Marin, of
which Jonathan Rowson wrote the following in New in Chess 1/2005. "It
must be a strong candidate for any existing book of the year award, and if
it doesn't win any, someone should create a new award so that the book's quality
is properly acknowledged."

See also

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Video

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